Video: Locking textures

When you are painting with the Mixer brush in conjunction with textures, you're normally not going to want the texture to change from brush to brush. You want to maintain a consistent painting surface, which means that the texture itself should not change. There is a control within the Texture panel that allows this to not happen. I am going to show this to you in conjunction with Tool presets, which is where this really is important.

Join John Derry, a pioneer in the field of digital painting, as he shows how to master the natural-media painting features introduced in Photoshop CS5 in Photoshop CS5: Painting with the Mixer Brush. This course shows how to use the Mixer Brush, the Bristle Tips feature, and a new mechanism for blending colors in Photoshop to add beautiful, painterly effects to photographs, enhance artwork with paint-like strokes and illustrations, and paint entirely new art from scratch. This course also covers customizing brush characteristics and surface textures, applying keyboard shortcuts to paint smoothly and efficiently, and using a Wacom tablet to get the most out of Photoshop CS5’s painting features. Exercise files are included with the course.

Locking textures

When you are painting with the Mixer brush in conjunction with textures, you'renormally not going to want the texture to change from brush to brush.You want to maintain a consistent painting surface, which means that the textureitself should not change.There is a control within the Texture panel that allows this to not happen.I am going to show this to you in conjunction with Tool presets, which is wherethis really is important.

We haven't covered Tool presets yet.We will elsewhere in the title, but I feel it's important to note it here sothat you understand the importance of the Texture Lock.So I am going to be using a couple Mixer brush Tool presets to explain exactlywhy this is an important feature.So you'll see that beside each of these subpanels you have the opportunity tolock this subpanel.I am going to leave it unlocked for the moment.Let's go over, and here are the two sample Tool presets that I've createdfrom the Mixer brush.

I'll just paint with one.You'll see that this has a specific almost kind of wood-grain-like texture init, and another thing about it is that it's using the Height mode.Let's go, and now use the second Mixer brush preset.You'll see this one has a completely different texture.If we go look in the Brush panel, not only is it a different texture, but it's adifferent mode altogether.So there are some very different things about these two brushes, and were Iusing these in a single painting, it would be incongruent to have thisintermixture of texture going on.

So what I can do is initialize the Texture Lock.Now that that's on, whatever the current settings are will not change based onvarious Tool presets that I'm using.So let's go back now, and let's remember that this brush is working with afiner grain texture.If I go over to my Tool presets now and get the other brush, now we're gettingthe same exact textural behavior within the brush that we did in the first one.So the lesson to be learned here is that the Texture Lock is a way to ensurethat all your Tool preset Mixer brushes will maintain the same texturesthroughout a painting.

I normally keep this on all the time.However, for creative purposes, if you want to be able to paint with differenttextures within a single painting - and there are times where that may bedesirable - you do have the creative capability of disabling this Texture Lock.But the Texture Lock is your key to maintaining a specific texture throughout anentire painting project.

Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about Photoshop CS5: Painting with the Mixer Brush .

Here are the FAQs that matched your search "" :

Expand all | Collapse all

please wait ...

Q: What factors affect how well the mixer brushes in Photoshop perform? Does document size (i.e. 72dpi vs. 240dpi) affect the performance of the brushes? How can I maximize brush performance?

A: The recordings for this tutorial were generally done at a standard screen resolution, but a real-world situation will often require higher resolutions. For example, offset printing generally dictates files at 300ppi (pixels per inch). Inkjet printing is often discussed in terms of 240ppi. For web-based viewing, imagery at 72ppi is considered acceptable. You can easily determine the pixel resolution of an image by multiplying the size in inches by the above ppi (pixels per inch) factors.
Let's use a typical real-world size as an example: 20" X 24". This is a common photographic print and frame size.

Note that each of these resolution factors quadruples the total pixel count.
It is the amount of pixels being manipulated that dictates both application and brush performance. With this in mind, we can state that performance decreases as image pixel size increases. There are three primary factors that affect an application's ability to handle large pixel-based manipulation.
For the full FAQ, please download the PDF file here.

Sorry, there are no matches for your search "" —to search again, type in another word or phrase and click search.

Learn by watching, listening, and doing, Exercise files are the same files the author uses in the course, so you can download them and follow along Premium memberships include access to all exercise files in the library.

Already a member ?

Learn by watching, listening, and doing! Exercise files are the same files the author uses in the course, so you can download them and follow along. Exercise files are available with all Premium memberships.
Learn more

Upgrade to our Annual Premium Membership today and get even more value from your lynda.com subscription:

“In a way, I feel like you are rooting for me. Like you are really invested in my experience, and want me to get as much out of these courses as possible this is the best place to start on your journey to learning new material.”— Nadine H.

Thanks for signing up.

We’ll send you a confirmation email shortly.

Sign up and receive emails about lynda.com and our online training library:

new course releases

newsletter

general communications

special notices

Here’s our privacy policy with more details about how we handle your information.

Keep up with news, tips, and latest courses with emails from lynda.com.

Sign up and receive emails about lynda.com and our online training library:

new course releases

newsletter

general communications

special notices

Here’s our privacy policy with more details about how we handle your information.